An audit of drug use in hospital and its influence on falls: A retrospective case control study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12605000212651

Enrollment

714

Registered

2005-08-25

Start date

2004-08-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

None

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

0 to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients admitted to the Repatriation General Hospital in 2001. Fallers were defined as patients who had experienced at least one fall during their admission. Controls will be randomly selected from the remaining admissions and frequency matched for comorbidities, age, and gender.

Exclusion criteria

No exclusion criteria

Outcome results